Bargain Advocate: Who you callin' chicken?

3:03 AM,
Jun. 8, 2013

Abbey Roy 032912

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Abbey Roy
CentralOhio.com

I've always felt like cooking a whole chicken is one of those tenets of frugal living I should attempt but never quite got around to. I guess because it seemed intimidating, and because I figured I wouldn't have time, and especially because the word "giblets" sort of freaked me out.

But earlier this spring, for the sake of this column, I decided it was finally time to give it a try. I repeated my experiment last week to be sure my success wasn't a fluke, and as I write this I'm still alive, so I must have done something right.

Let me pause here to say that if you are a squeamish sort of person who is not at all ...